Professional Experience
Background & Expertise
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University
Advisor: Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
December 2016 - Present
Synthesis of novel molecular machines and their related functional materials
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University
Advisor: Kevin Noonan
October 2016 - November 2016
Mechanistic investigation on controlled synthesis of conjugated polymers
Graduate Student
Department of Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University
Advisor: Kevin Noonan and Tomasz Kowalewski
August 2011 - September 2016
Synthesis of sequence controlled conjugated polymer
Developing methodology for controlled polymerization of conjugated materials such as polythiophenes and polyfurans using Kumada, Stille and Suzuki catalyst-transfer polycondensation
Synthesizing benzobisthiaphospholes as a main group element incorporating conjugated building block for optoelectronic materials
Designing phosphorus atom modified salen ligand for olefin polymerization
Undergraduate Student
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Peking University
Advisor: Demin Zhou
September 2009 - May 2011
Modifying oleanane-type triterpenes (oleanolic acid) as potential new class of HCV entry inhibitors by conjugation of this new lead with a disaccharide, which removed the undesired hemolytic effect and, more importantly, increased its potency by ∼5-fold compared with the precursor